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Today was the first day of our new adventure. Yesterday we went to church at the First Baptist Church, and when we found out that they were having a picnic in the afternoon, we decided that it might be a good way to meet some of the people there.
Loran and Fritz flew in from Oregon to Chicago late Sunday night, but didn't arrive here till mid morning. By the time we had gone through all the preliminary setup, it was time to head to the cannery for our first load of seed. It seems that they had some delays getting started so all we did was drop off eight totes and came back. By three PM we had most every thing in order for the arrival of the seeds
For the first week, Barb is going to work with Fritz, and I am going to work with Loaran. Then we will be on our own. Since we tend to be morning people, we will work the 3 AM to 3 PM shift, and Fritz and Loran will work the 3 PM to 3 AM shift.
We will be making 3 or 4 trips a day to the cannery to pick up seed. Both Barb and I rode along today so that we could get our orientation of where everything is. We dropped off five more totes but only came back with 3 full ones, which were all put in one dryer. Loran will make another run about midnight and hopefully there will be at least four more or possibly six. We still have three dryers left that can handle up to nine more totes. It takes about ten hours to dry a load, so the object is to always have a dryer available for what you pick up. If it gets too backed up we may have to fire up the dryers in the second building, but then you have to watch between two places.
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